Sewing-machine presser-foot.



No. 793,716. PATENTED JULY 4, 1905. A. H. DE V013.

SEWING MACHINE PRESSER FOOT.

APPLICATION FILED NOV.29,19'04=.

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No. 793,716. Patented July 4, 1905.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT HARRISON DE VOE, OF ELIZABETH, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THE SINGER MANUFACTURING COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF 'NEW JERSEY.

SEWING-MACHINE PRESSER-FOOT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 793,? 16, dated July 4, 1905.

Application filed November 29, 1904- Serial No. 234,694.

To 107mm it y 6077/0677 gular shank f, rigidly secured to the presser- Be it known that I, ALBERT HARRISON Dn foot shank a, by means of the pivot-pin 0, pass- Von, a citizen of the United States, residing ing through the said shank f, and the screw at Elizabeth, in the county of Union and State 9, tapped in the presser-foot shank. To pro- 5 of New Jersey, have invented certain new and vide for a certain limited adjustment of the useful Improvements in Sewing Machine guide a to vary its working position, the said Presser-Feet, of which the followingisaspecishank f is provided with a slot it, through fication, reference being had therein to the acwhich the set-screw 9 passes and which slot companying drawings. when the said screw is loosened permits the I This invention relates to an improved sewposition of the guide to be varied,as is desiringmachine presserfoot more especially able for different kinds of work. Thus with adapted for use with a lap-seam feller or thicker goods it is desirable that the guide 6 folder and which is of such construction that should project downward somewhat farther in forming lapseams any danger of displacebeneath the upturned toe portion of the foot 15 ment of the material in such a manner as to 5 than with thin goods, and a proper adjustform imperfect seams will be avoided, and ment to this end can be effected when the setmore particularly so where thick places occur screw g is loosened by turning the guidein the work, as where one lap-seam crosses shank f slightly on the pivot-pin c. A coilanother. To'this end the presser-foot proper spring 2', housed in the shank a and pressing 2 has a hinged or pivoted connection with its on the upper surface of the presser-foot b shank, and rigid with or attached to the latrearwardof the pivot-pin c, has a tendency to ter at one side of the needle-holes in the foot lift the front or toe portion of the said foot, so is a guide which is adapted to project down that the goods will readily enter beneath the below the bottom of the front portion of the latter, and particularly so when thick portions 2 5 presser-foot in such a manner that when the of work or cross-seams have to pass beneath toe of the pivoted foot is lifted by the pasthe presser-foot, the said spring yielding when sage beneath the same of a thick portion of the cross-seams or thick portions of the work work the guide will continue to assist in pass beneath the heel portion of the foot, properly directing the work to the needle or thereby permitting the inequalities of the 3 needles, so that the goods will not become diswork to run smoothly through the machine. placed in such a manner that the infolded The upturned toe portion of the foot is prefedges of the goods will fail to be secured by erably inclined away from the said guide c the lines of stitching. and in a plane transverse to the said foot or In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is to the feed of the work, this inclination be- 35 a side view of theimproved presser-foot; and ing preferably carried down to the bottom Figs. 2, 3, 4, and 5 are plan, front, rear, and portion of the foot, as more clearly shown in bottom views,respectively,of the same. Fig. Fig. 5. The guide a is also preferably cham- 8 5 6 is a diagrammatic view illustrative of the fered or rounded off in front on its inner side. use of the invention. Owing to these constructions the lap-seam 4 Referring to the drawingsn denotesashank folder may be set well toward the left, Fig. adapted for attachment to a presser-bar, and 3, and the folded material passing the rightbis the presser-foot proper,hinged or pivoted hand edge of the guide will be ironed or to the front part of the shank a by a pin 0. smoothed down by the inclined toe portion of In the present form of the invention the front the presser-foot in such a manner that the 45 or toe portion of the foot 6 is provided with folded goods forming the seam will be laid an opening d, through which and between the smooth and flat as they are presented to the outer sides of said foot extends a guide 6, needles of the machine and the positions of preferably formed integral with a right-anwhich needles are indicated by the needleholes 76 in the presser-foot b. This desirable result is due to the fact that owing to the in.- clined toe portion of the presser-foot extending down to the bottom portion of said foot the part of saidfoot which is adjacent to the edge-guide 6 will engage the top of the entering material first, and any extra fullness of material will yield or escape toward the right-hand edge of said foot, Fig. 6, and the entering material will thus be ironed down smooth, as above stated, and particularly so in stitching around curves when there is sometimes more fullness or surplus material.

The relative positions of the folded goods, the guide, and the presser-foot are somewhat diagrammatically illustrated in Fig. 6, and from which. and the foregoing descriptionthe operation of the invention will be readily understood by those skilled in the art and in which the vertical lines m indicate, approximately, the positions of the needles in the sewing operation.

Owing to the fact that the pivot-pin c of the foot-piece Z) is intermediate the ends of said foot-piece, the rise of the presser-i'oot shank a and of the guide 6 rigid therewith when cross-seams or other thick parts of the work pass beneath the presser-foot is about equal to the mean rise of the opposite ends of the foot-piece or about one-half of the rise of the toe portionof the said foot-piece, so that the said guide will always maintain such a proper relation to the bottom of the footpiece as will prevent lateral displacement of the work at all times.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A sewing-machine presser-foot comprising a shank, a foot portion pivoted thereto, and an edge-guide rigid with said shank and extending downward beneath the upturned toe portion of the said pivoted presser-foot between the outer sides of the latter.

2. A sewing-machine presser-foot comprising a shank, a foot portion pivoted thereto, and a guide rigid with said shank and extending downward beneath the upturned toe portion of the presser-foot, said guide being adjustably connected with said shank so that its working position may be varied.

3. A sewing-machine presser-foot comprising a shank, a foot portion pivoted thereto, a guide rigid with said shank and extending downward beneath the upturned toe portion of the said pivoted presser-foot between the outer sides thereof, and a spring bearing against said foot portion rearward of its pivot, so as to have a tendency to lift the said toe portion.

t. A sewing-machine presser-foot comprising a shank, a foot portion pivoted thereto, and an edge-guide rigid with said shank and extending downward beneath the upturned toe portion of the said pivoted presser-foot between the outer sides thereof, said toe portion being inclined, transversely of said foot, away from said guide.

5. A sewing-machine presser-foot compris-' ing the shank a, the foot 6 pivoted thereto, the guide 6 extending through and beneath the upturned toe portion of said foot and the right-angular shank f carrying the said guide 0 and rigidly attached to the said shank a.

6. A sewing-machine presser-foot comprising the shank a, the foot 6 pivoted thereto, the guide 6 extending beneath the upturned toe portion of said foot and the right-angular shank f carrying the said guide 6 and rigidly attached to the said shank a, said shank fhaving a slot h to permit its working position to be varied, and through which slot the setscrew 9 passes.

7. A sewing-machine presser-foot comprising a shank, a foot-piece pivoted to said shank at a point intermediate the ends of said footpiece, and a guide rigid with said shank and extending through and beneath the upturned toe portion of said pivoted foot-piece.

8. A sewing-machine presser-foot comprising a shank, a foot-piece pivoted to said shank at a point intermediate the ends of said footpiece, and a guide rigid with said shank and extending beneath the upturned toe portion of said foot-piece, said guide being adjustably connected with said shank so that its working position may be varied.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ALBERT HARRISON DE VOE.

Witnesses:

HENRY J. MILLER, H. A. KORNEMANN. 

